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GRAY

1. [n] horse of a light grey or whitish color

2. [n] gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray"

3. [n] a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

4. [n] any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray; "the Confederate army was a vast gray"

5. [n] United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin''s theories of evolution (1810-1888)

6. [n] American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

7. [n] English poet best known for his elegy written in a country church-yard (1716-1771)

8. [v] turn gray; "Her hair began to gray"

9. [v] make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky"

10. [s] an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just turning gray"

11. [s] darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

12. [s] intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

13. [s] used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure"

14. [s] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

similar words

1. [a] achromatic

2. [a] cloudy

3. [a] intermediate

4. [a] southern

5. [a] old

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